Drake is to become home to the Royal Marines and the Dockyard to the amphibious fleet. It was obvious, all the building work that has taken place and the amount of new accommodation is far in excess of what any RN base would now need.

Submariners in the future will all speak with a Scotish accent,
because, unless there are some major incentives (or drafting
to submarine service/training goes through the roof), this future
move is going to bring it's own unique set of problems along for
the ride.

Submariner? Well - you've got ONE choice of base port.

Skimmer? Well - you've got TWO.....at the moment.

Like I said in a previous thread....we'll ALWAYS have HMSM/L GLEANER,
but I've heard that's being based up in Stornoway pretty soon.

Most of the SM school will move, local news said 3 T boats to Faslavatory (as I said in another thread) and 4 to remain in Guzz. What they didn't say was that the 4 in Guzz will be de-commissioned ones, nice bit of spin.

Joking aside this says it all about the current state of the Mob! How to ruin a whole part of the UK instead of keeping them all up and running so you keep jolly jack content! I thought the people were the most important thing but as nobody was asked! All those Continous Attitude Surveys that get sent out must be doing just the trick! 8O

"Most of the SM school will move, local news said 3 T boats to Faslavatory (as I said in another thread) and 4 to remain in Guzz. What they didn't say was that the 4 in Guzz will be de-commissioned ones, nice bit of spin."

Not quite - 3 will move on completion of their refits, while the other 4 will be based there till decomissioning.

I'm not quite sure why this is coming as such a shock - its been open knowledge for years that we'll be basing the Astutes and SSBNs in Faslane.

Joking aside this says it all about the current state of the Mob! How to ruin a whole part of the UK instead of keeping them all up and running so you keep jolly jack content! I thought the people were the most important thing but as nobody was asked! All those Continous Attitude Surveys that get sent out must be doing just the trick! 8O

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No, it just makes sense, face it, the mob isn't big enough to justify 2 bases for the surface fleet, all the training establishments are in Pompey and it is the Historical home of the RN.

It makes perfect sense. If you don't like it, bang out. like I have

Edited to add Guzz is sh1t and full of Janner cnuts so as far as I'm concerned a scorched earth policy would be best.